php[architect]

Everywhere I look, there are articles targeting programmers with suggestions and plans for how to be “better.” Some articles promise to make you a better co-worker, while others extol the virtues of b...

Every application will, one day, be exposed to a cybersecurity risk. Learning how to categorize and rate those risks is critical to keeping your team focused on the things that matter most.

Designing for failure is difficult because it’s usually not practical to predict every possible thing that could go wrong. Last month we got the preliminary “spadework” out of the way. This month we b...

Symfony is one of the stalwarts of modern PHP, dating back to 2005. Symfony has continued to evolve into a framework of components focused on building web applications using decoupled and reusable com...

One of the interesting things about programming is that when faced with a similar problem, developers tend to build the same solution. They may call their implementations different names, or there may...

In the last two months, we saw how to control randomness. This month, we let users guess the random sequence created by the program.

Each business has its set of problems that developers need to solve. In DDD, those problems describe how the business works and the user flows - the so-called Problem Space. On the other side, when we...

PHP is becoming more popular for controlling Internet Of Things devices like home automation, cameras, doorbells, and even light bulbs. In this article, we’ll shed some literal and figurative light on...